A second attempt to have the Bhisho sex-for-jobs report canned and prevent the legislature’s plan to implement its recommendations failed, after the Bhisho High Court postponed the case indefinitely.
The postponement on Tuesday follows an application filed by newly appointed ANC MPL Pumelele Ndamase, legislature general manager of integrated human resources management Malibongwe Ngcai and general manager of strategy, policy, monitoring and evaluation Phumlani Basil Mase.
The three want the high court to interdict legislature speaker Noxolo Kiviet and six other respondents from implementing findings of the Neela Hoosain report and from making media statements disclosing the contents thereof.
The commission, which completed its work and handed over the report last October, had looked into recruitment irregularities and claims of senior managers using their positions to solicit sexual favours from junior employees and interns at the institution.
The commission was established in May last year.
Kiviet, the legislature, Hoosain and Nehawu leaders Madoda Nkwali, Jerry Basson and Branton Jonas are all listed as respondents in the documents submitted to court.
The report, seen by the Dispatch, alleges that Ndamase made sexual advances to two personal assistants (PAs) in his office while still heading the legislature administration. It further states that the two PAs were later removed from Ndamase’s office and replaced with interns after they were said to have rejected his alleged sexual advances.
The commission also found that at Ngcai’s office a secretary was also removed to another unit and replaced with an intern after she rebuffed her boss’s alleged sexual advances.
The Hoosain report further states that Mase flouted recruitment policies by submitting someone’s application for a researcher post during the short-listing process and thereafter motivated for her appointment. The unnamed researcher was later appointed.
In his submission last December, Ndamase, who is also a provincial ANC executive member, said Kiviet had no authority to “establish that kind of a committee” and that “since the allegations and findings might have serious repercussions on people named in the report, they should have been afforded opportunity to state their case, which is an integral part of rules of natural justice”.
Contacted for comment yesterday, Ndamase confirmed that they were in court.
“There are applicants and I’m one of the applicants,” he said.
Legislature spokeswoman Bulelwa Ganyaza said the case remained sub judice “and so we cannot make any comment”.
Sex-for-jobs court case postponed
The postponement on Tuesday follows an application filed by newly appointed ANC MPL Pumelele Ndamase, legislature general manager of integrated human resources management Malibongwe Ngcai and general manager of strategy, policy, monitoring and evaluation Phumlani Basil Mase.
The three want the high court to interdict legislature speaker Noxolo Kiviet and six other respondents from implementing findings of the Neela Hoosain report and from making media statements disclosing the contents thereof.
The commission, which completed its work and handed over the report last October, had looked into recruitment irregularities and claims of senior managers using their positions to solicit sexual favours from junior employees and interns at the institution.
The commission was established in May last year.
Kiviet, the legislature, Hoosain and Nehawu leaders Madoda Nkwali, Jerry Basson and Branton Jonas are all listed as respondents in the documents submitted to court.
The report, seen by the Dispatch, alleges that Ndamase made sexual advances to two personal assistants (PAs) in his office while still heading the legislature administration. It further states that the two PAs were later removed from Ndamase’s office and replaced with interns after they were said to have rejected his alleged sexual advances.
The commission also found that at Ngcai’s office a secretary was also removed to another unit and replaced with an intern after she rebuffed her boss’s alleged sexual advances.
The Hoosain report further states that Mase flouted recruitment policies by submitting someone’s application for a researcher post during the short-listing process and thereafter motivated for her appointment. The unnamed researcher was later appointed.
In his submission last December, Ndamase, who is also a provincial ANC executive member, said Kiviet had no authority to “establish that kind of a committee” and that “since the allegations and findings might have serious repercussions on people named in the report, they should have been afforded opportunity to state their case, which is an integral part of rules of natural justice”.
Contacted for comment yesterday, Ndamase confirmed that they were in court.
“There are applicants and I’m one of the applicants,” he said.
Legislature spokeswoman Bulelwa Ganyaza said the case remained sub judice “and so we cannot make any comment”.
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